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All nine of the U.S. Governors running for re-election were victorious, as were all five Senators and 92 of the 95 Congressmen. Republican Governor Francis Sargent, 59, won easily in Massachusetts, although he is considerably to the left of his party, and Florida's Democratic Governor Reubin Askew...
That Bostonians would so rudely treat a Kennedy was a measure of the depth of their bitterness. For nearly a decade, the predominantly white city school committee had disobeyed a state law prohibiting schools from having student bodies that are more than 50% nonwhite. Boston's public school population...
Outraged Parents. In dozens of meetings in the living rooms of white parents, Mayor Kevin White urged peaceful compliance with the order. "It's a lousy, rotten law," he said. "We fought the thing. We lost. Now we have to go along with it." But White was unable to...
Though he favors integration, he has consistently opposed school busing to achieve racial balance, arguing that it is demeaning for blacks to be told that a proper education is impossible in black schools. "My recurring nightmare," he says half jokingly, "has all the white people moving off to Alaska and...
War on Drugs. In his last term in office, Rockefeller made a calculated shift toward conservatism. He knew that if he was ever going to become President, he would have to anchor his right. He began condemning "welfare cheaters" and appointed a state inspector to weed out fraud on the...